This is another computer that I rescued
from my local scrap yard. It is a nice tidy little unit
although there isn't any room in it for any expansion, as
you can see the bays in the front are filled with a
3.5" & a 5.25" full height floppy drive. It
has got 3 x 16 bit ISA slots on a riser board and it is
fitted with a Evergreen Upgrade processor. I did try to
increase the memory on it when I first got it but I
couldn't get it any higher than the 16MB that it came
with so I am not sure if that is the maximum that the
board will take or if it is choosy as to the type of
memory it uses. (I have now found some different memory
from another Compaq and it now has 32 MB 13/03/2002 )

It
is installed with Windows 95 and word 97 which
unfortunately only leaves 40MB on the hard disk, quite
obviously this used to be a network machine so the amount
of disk space left wasn't so important. I did try
installing the PC speaker driver for windows on this just
to see how well it would work, but it stops everything
dead while it makes a sound (windows sound effects) so I
shall probably remove that again. The one thing that I
have found with Compaq computers is they usually put all
the jumper settings on labels inside the case.

CPU Evergreen upgrade

32
MB Ram

3.5" FDD Citizen 1.44MB

5.25" FDD Mitsubishi 1.2MB

HDD Quantum Pro Drive LPS 232MB

Dimensions 16"Wide x 15.5"Deep x 4"High

It would appear going by the number of emails that I
get that it is difficult to access the Bios on these and
it almost seems impossible on some.

To
access the Bios on my Prolinea on power up it runs the
memory check then you here it check the floppy disk and
hard disk drives then there are two beeps, at which point
there is a white square that appears at the top right of
the screen then you press the F10 key which lets you into
the Bios. This access period is only avaiable for a
second or two after which it continues to boot.

If that doesn't work then you can get a
file SP1363.exe which when executed creates a boot disk
on a 1.44MB floppy disk that gives you access to the Bios